Police have two rights that even the president does not have, the right to take liberty and to take life. Those are… — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because my mother chose life, we know that in this nation, this nation that is based on life, liberty and the pursuit… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
Given man's nature, freedom will always be in jeopardy, and the only question that need concern each of us is if and… — Benjamin A. Rogge Copy Share Image
The issue isn't gun control but state control -- obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ... Forget guns. If… — George Jonas Copy Share Image
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the only ideology that has ever changed society. The spirit of anarchism lies in freeing one from the chains of… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance… — John Bright Copy Share Image
God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Domestic wiretaps, government television cameras blanketing our streets, spy drones by the thousands flying over our heads. It makes you wonder if… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
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